True Grit (movie)

A lot of performers who come out of comedy, sketch and improvisation would rather die than do next-to-nothing on camera. Kristen Wiig, on the other hand — no problem. She can watch, and listen and be interesting. She's comfortable working on a small canvas with incremental brushstrokes, which makes her an apt match for the isolated, insulated character at the heart of "Hateship Loveship," now in a two-week run at the Gene Siskel Film Center. It's a short-story-sized project, explained by its origins in a short story by Alice Munro. Screenwriter Mark Jude Poirier relocates the material from rural Ontario to Iowa and Chicago (the film was shot mostly in Louisiana,...

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